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I'm sure there must have been a thread about this already, but I went to see this last night and oh my fucking god, it's incredible. I usually hate musicals but it was so good, easily 5/5. Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are amazing, and Tim Burton's use of colour is just beautiful. I've actually never come out of the cinema raving about a film so much before. Go and see it now!

Heaving bosoms aplenty. I enjoyed it, but the boy (whose name I have forgotten) and Johanna are quite boring in it, I've not seen the musical, but a number of reviews would suggest that they're more important to the original story than acknowledged in the film. Also, apparently in the musical, "cannibalism is a metaphor for the evils of economic ruthlessness" - that doesn't come through in the film at all, and could have added another dimension to it. The film's marketing is weird too - it's not being punted as a musical in an attempt to not deter blokes from seeing it, but (I work at a cinema), upon leaving the film, droves of people complain that they "didn't realise it's a musical" - obviously, it doesn't take much effort to look the film up and find out a little about it, but it seems somewhat dishonest to not describe it accurately.